Lumen

Join us for A Festival of Christmas - featuring In The Bleak Midwinter, Ding Dong Merrily On High, Bethlehem Down, Gaudete and festive readers from The Tower Theatre Company ✨ link in bio for more information!

🎥 Carmen's setting of ‘My people hath been lost sheep’, the text from Jeremiah, is a beautiful spiritual account of the Biblical story of Jews in Babylonian exile. The piece also translates equally to the way many of us feel in the present day. Watch our new video to hear Carmen talking about her piece from our #LumenDeLumine album. Link in bio 🎵

🎥 Barry Hopwood has been a member of Lumen for two years and was inspired to write The Lord’s Prayer for our visit to St George’s, Windsor Castle in 2017.
Combined with his Agnus Dei, these two short prayers were perfect additions to our #LumenDeLumine album.
Video link in bio!

Our Tudor by Candlelight concert tonight✨ thank you to all who came & keep an eye out for our upcoming Christmas concert too!

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🎥 Michael's beautiful new setting of Beati quorum via sits at the heart of our #LumenDeLumine album. Its beautiful melodic lines and expressive harmonies bring a new interpretation to the well known classic text, made famous by Charles Villiers Stanford - however, we think that Michael's version might become the new favourite setting for choirs across the world. Follow the link in our bio to watch the video!

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New video 🎥 Matt Wetmore talks about his piece O Sapientia from our #LumenDeLumine album. Link in bio!
Matt Wetmore's beautiful piece, featured on the Lumen de Lumine album is a new setting of O Sapientia, the first of the Latin prayers known as the “O Antiphons”. The setting uses a motive of parallel sixths sweeping through lush chord changes throughout, transforming in various ways depending on the text. At last, at the climax, a third parallel line is added to the texture on the call for this wisdom to come and teach the world.

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2 months ago

IT’S HERE! Our #LumenDeLumine album is now available to buy/listen to/download on iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music 🎵 Grab your headphones and get listening! It’s a proud moment, and we’re hugely grateful to everyone who made this possible ❤️ link in bio

🎥 Find out more about 'The way of life' from our #LumenDeLumine album. Link to the video in our bio.
Using the words of the Didache as inspiration, 'The way of life' builds on the mantra ‘do not thou to another’. At first keeping the chord spacing fairly tight, the piece then develops with the bass part moving downwards to create deliberately uneven chord spacing, reminiscent of the atavism that sits at the core of the text. The harmonic ambiguity and unresolved final chord illustrate the fact that on this, and other moral issues, we have a long way to go.

🎥 New video - watch Kit Grahame talking about his piece, Lullaby, from our #LumenDeLumine album 🎵Link in bio!
Lullaby is a love poem by W. H. Auden, addressed to the speaker’s sleeping lover. It speaks of the fleeting nature of youth, the imperfections of humanity, and the hardships of life and love.

🎥 Find out more about 'Safe in the arms of He', a piece from our #LumenDeLumine album. Video link in our bio.
Following the loss of her beloved nephew, Joanna couldn't help but put pen to paper and write 'Safe in the arms of He', which we are delighted to feature on our Lumen de Lumine album.
This choral piece is soft and gentle, reflecting Oliver's character with the interwoven theme throughout of God’s hand at work in their lives. The words taken and inspired from their book; ‘Love Oliver’ and Joanna hopes it can be a blessing to those in similar circumstances.’

#flashbackfriday It's been just over a week since the launch concert for our #LumenDeLumine album - time flies! Not long until you'll be able to hear us on iTunes and Spotify 🎵

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3 months ago

Wonderful to see so many people at our @kickstarter launch last week of the #lumendelumine Album - we’re so grateful for all your support! Now only a matter of weeks until the album is available through Convivium Records #newmusic#choir

Find our more about the making of our #LumenDeLumine album - link to a new video in our bio 🎵The album will be available to download from September, so keep an eye out on here 👀Thanks to Michael for this lovely photo of us all! 📸

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3 months ago

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Congratulations on a beautiful album launch last night, @lumenchoir! This choir’s new album, Lumen de Lumine, is filled with brand-new sacred and spiritual choral music, written by emerging choral composers. Check out their page for more details – they’re doing incredible things. #choralmusic#choir